Is it legal to train AI models on copyrighted books? It’s complicated
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The legal gray zone around training on copyrighted books keeps a liability overhang on foundation models built from web-scale corpora. If you’re shipping on top of third-party models, contract for indemnity explicitly and maintain an exit path to alternative providers or first-party models.
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